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Illustrative species image of Potatoes: discover what grows beneath your plants

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Potatoes: discover what grows beneath your plants

The fun of potatoes lies underground. You watch foliage growing for weeks and only discover the tubers the plant has made when you lift them. Choose an early variety for a small summer harvest or a later variety for storage; a sturdy grow bag also gives you room to start.

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Growing strawberries: a garden full of flavour

A strawberry bed can offer much more than one red variety: combine early summer harvests, everbearers and small, fragrant wild strawberries. White and yellow fruits need different ripeness checks from red ones.

Illustrative species image of Strawberry spinach

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Strawberry spinach

A leafy vegetable with two faces: green leaves for the kitchen and red fruit clusters that look like small strawberries.

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Illustrative species image of Jerusalem artichoke: a tall summer garden with a winter harvest

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Jerusalem artichoke: a tall summer garden with a winter harvest

Above ground, Jerusalem artichoke becomes a large plant reminiscent of a sunflower. Below ground, knobbly tubers form for autumn and winter. Give this crop a permanent corner: small tubers left behind often regrow the following spring.

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Illustrative species image of Ethiopian kale

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Ethiopian kale

Gomenzer quickly produces leaves and young shoots. Its green to purplish-green foliage also makes this cabbage attractive in a mixed bed.

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Growing apricots: a garden full of flavour

An apricot against a warm wall is a project for anyone who also wants to follow the blossom. Help the tree through its vulnerable early stage and, if fruit sets successfully, enjoy soft summer fruit. Protection and hand pollination make growing it an engaging learning experience.

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Ace 55 VF: discover its flavour and how to grow it

A round, red tomato for anyone starting with the classic shape and a juicy harvest. A recognisable greenhouse or sheltered outdoor choice for ordinary, round fruits rather than unusual colour patterns.

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Hardening off: from windowsill to outdoors without growth shock

A seedling sheltered indoors needs to adjust to wind, sun and cooler nights. A gradual transition makes the move into your garden gentler.

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French marigold: varieties, growing and uses

A marigold can form a low golden edge around the vegetable garden, or grow tall with large, solid flower heads. Look beyond the familiar orange bedding plant. An open yellow flower beside a dark tomato or a group of large lemon-yellow blooms creates a very different garden look.

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Aili: flavour and growing

Finnish; distinctive aroma according to the nursery.

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Alba: growing borage

The same annual species with white stars.

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Alba: discover its flavour and how to grow it

Round, white swollen root of an improved Monarch type. Choose Alba for round swollen roots of the Monarch type. The supplier mentions Septoria resistance; this remains a variety description and does not eliminate every leaf problem.

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Albenga: discover its flavour and how to grow it

Long, strongly curved Italian squash can form trombone shapes, with light green skin turning ochre later. Choose Albenga for spectacular length and curved fruits. The source also names this variety Tromboncino.

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Albion: flavour and growing

Perpetual-fruiting; long conical, deep red.

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Alfred: flavour and growing

Orange with a pink blush.

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All Gold: growing lemon balm

Golden-yellow foliage for a lightly shaded spot.

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All Gold: flavour and growing

Autumn-fruiting cultivar; sweet yellow berries.

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Growing almonds: a garden full of flavour

Almond combines early blossom with a very different harvest from juicy fruit. Treat it as a sheltered tree crop, paying particular attention to the blossom stage. Choose a selection confirmed to be edible and ask the supplier to clearly specify its rootstock and pollination requirements.

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Amarant: discover its flavour and how to grow it

Amarant is an early red cabbage selection with a short stem and small, round, dense heads. This suits a harvest in modest portions. Choose Amarant if an early, smaller cabbage fits your layout. Even a small variety needs healthy growing space.

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Growing Ambrosia: light green pods along an accessible row of mesh

Ambrosia is a dwarf mangetout with a Dutch variety profile and a place in the school garden selection. Follow support, young pods and the short journey from picking to kitchen.

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American Giant: growing sunflower

A named annual Helianthus annuus selection from the RHS list.

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Ampuis: discover its flavour and how to grow it

An old French mid-season variety with red, strongly wrinkled, lantern-shaped fruits and thin skin. Choose Ampuis when drying is important and you want an unusual lantern shape.

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Amsterdamse Bak 2: discover its flavour and how to grow it

Early, thin, cylindrical bunching carrots. Choose this variety for early bunching carrots and small meal portions. The name refers to growing in hotbeds; outdoors it can also grow as an early summer carrot.

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Ananori: discover its flavour and how to grow it

A large, flat beefsteak tomato with light ribbing and marbled colour from green to yellow and red. For those mainly seeking an unusual fresh beefsteak tomato who do not need a firm transport tomato. The colour pattern makes every picking interesting.